PASSENGERS BY AORANGI.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 13

PASSENGERS BY AORANGI.

(SrtnAt, ro Daii.v Times.) AUCKLAND, January 30. Among Um passengers who arrived by the Aorangi lust night were Sir Maui Romaic (Minister in charge of the Cool; Islands ami Acting Minister of Internal Affairs), accompanied by his son ami by Mr S. J. Smith, of the Internal Affairs Department. The Minister had been attending a conference in Suva relating to the care of lepers at Makogai. Mr J. (.4, Darkness, a prominent figure in New Zealand dairying, and formerly chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, returned with Mrs Darkness after visiting Britain, Denmark, and Canada. Dr James Hight. of Canterbury tadleg®, returned after an absence of a tear, in'"the course of which he tilled the chair of history at Leeds University, represented New Zealand at the Economic Conference under the auspices of the League of Nations at Geneva, and carried out a lecturing tour in some of the principal universities of the United States. Mr G. M. Reid, general manager of the \qw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, is traveling by the Aorangi to Sydney. He will visit the headquarters and principal branches of the company in Australia. In the course of his return trip to England he will spend a short while in Now Zealand. The young prince of tonga Laiita-Almu arrived as a member of the Tongan Male Choir- which < s to sing in Auckland on the way through to Australia. The prince is nine years of age, and has previously been in New Zealand with his mother, Queen Salote. Mr H. D. Skinner, lecturer on anthropology at Otago University, returned after spending some months in Britain and the United States for the purpose of special study.